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Invisibility Means Intangibility

I'm invisible therefore attacks are intangible.

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The tendency where using the Invisibility superpower somehow makes a person intangible - even though intangibility and invisibility are two different powers. The usual example is when a person is about to get hit, he goes invisible, causing the attack to fly through. Later on we realize that invisibility doesn't in fact, make him intangible. It's sort of like becoming a ghost, except they do not become a ghost.

The Fantastic Four character Invisible Woman can throw up forcefields that make it impossible to tell where she really is, which could look like intangibility for people not paying attention or unfamiliar.

InFinal Fantasy VI, Invisibility is a status effect that causes all physical attacks to not connect. A monster called "Intangir" is invisible by default, furthering the confusion between invisibility and intangibility.

In Final Fantasy VI, invisibility is a status effect that causes all physical attacks to not connect. A monster called "Intangir" is invisible by default, furthering the confusion between invisibility and intangibility.

The Fantastic Four character Invisible Woman can throw up forcefields that make it impossible to tell where she really is, which could look like intangibility for people not paying attention or unfamiliar.

I wouldn't recommend launching this yet. It has only four examples, no related tropes, and the description needs some work -- the sentence about ghosts isn't clear to me at all. This page will have almost no wicks if you launch it at the moment, so it's best for it to stay here for a while to get more examples and help. There isn't any hurry in launching a new trope.

In Sword Of The Stars Intangibility is the apex of the CloakingTech Tree, but it's either/or, a ship can be equipped with either an invisibility module or an intangibility module. A cloaked ship can be damaged by area-effect weapons while an intangible ship is fully visible.

In Mega Man Battle Network, the chip "Invis" will turn you half-invisible. The point of this chip isn't invisibility itself, but rather intangibility as attacks phase right through you when this chip is activated.

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